Transcriptions with footnotes of six letters spanning 1859 to 1863 from Wilkie Collins to various correspondents referring to or written in the Isle of Man and one memorandum from 1887 relating to his choice of man to serve as literary executor
Date(s): 2018
Creator(s): Lewis, Paul
Scope & Content: Collins wtites to his mother Harriet Collins and Charles Ward in these 1859 to 1863 letters. The 1887 memorandum is addressed to A P Watt and declares Collins's wishes that Watt serve as his literary executor. A footnote records that the Pall Mall Gazette introduced its publication of this Watt letter in 1889 after Wilkie Collins's death with the wording: 'Mr Wilkie Collins's literary exectutor. A statemnet having appeared that Hall Caine was to act as the literary representative of Mr. Collins, we are enabled to say tha there is no foundation whatever for such a rumour. The following memorandum, in Mr Colins's own writing, forms a kind of informal codicil to his will ...'
Language: English
Extent: 2 items
Item name: transcriptions
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: FONDS
ID number: MS 14517
Record class: Private
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